100 Teaching Tools You Should Know About 5 Ways To Be A Better Public Speaker 7.15K Views 0 Likes If you've been asked to speak at a conference or host a seminar, you may be shaking in your boots. Not only is the thought of speaking in public nerve-wracking, but being in charge of a seminar that no one wants to at... Edudemic Is Giving Away 30 Free Citelighter Pro Accounts! 576 Views 0 Likes We think Citelighter is a great tool for both students and teachers, and what better way to try it out than for free?
Koini - A Safe Kids Browser and Facebook For Kids One of the hardest things for kids these days is the lack of access to a social network of their very own - like a Facebook for kids. The world is fast becoming centered upon the idea of social networking for business, work and fun. However, for kids the concept of interacting with other people online is one that makes most responsible parents very nervous. The danger of most social networks is the idea that a perfect stranger from anywhere in the world can send you a message. One website that comes to the rescue is Koini. Koini Parent Sign-Up If you want to give the Koini browser a try, it's very easy. The verification process is a critical part of the safety at this site, because every member must go through the same process. The Koini Browser When you first launch Koini, it takes a few minutes so launch because it also goes through and shuts down all external IM systems on the computer and prevents any IM popups. Shutting Down IM Systems Koini Categories Adding Websites The Koini Club
Garbology Featured Activity: Waste-Less Lunch Lead your students in learning about natural resources used in common packaging materials. Challenge your students to conserve natural resources through their lunch choices. Check out this and other Garbology lessons for the classroom » Featured Activity: Conduct a Waste Assessment Do you know how much waste your school puts in landfills each week? Learn how and check out other Garbology activities » Featured Activity: Composting With the FBI The FBI turn waste into healthy soil. Bring Garbology home » LEARN NC: Search results Map skills and higher-order thinking This series of articles looks at map skills as a kind of visual literacy, considering what maps are, how they're made, and the higher-order thinking skills students need to move from simply decoding maps to fully comprehending them. Format: series (multiple pages) Reading images: an introduction to visual literacy Images are all around us, and the ability to interpret them meaningfully is a vital skill for students to learn. Format: article By Melissa Thibault and David Walbert. Map skills In Map skills and higher-order thinking, page 1 It used to be a lot of work to make a map. Format: article/best practice By David Walbert. Resources for looking at art A guide to some of the best websites, activities, and print resources for building visual literacy through the study of art. By Melissa Thibault. Reading maps: A process guide In Map skills and higher-order thinking, page 15 In Educator's Guides: North Carolina Digital History, page 2.2 Rethinking Reports
Clearinghouse E-Newsletter SignUp Show all resources sorted by most popular most recent most popular first containing Join to rate and submit resources ← Previous Page 1 of 58 Next → (1 ratings) interactive programs for making and analyzing art. Posted by cweihe, last updated on July 21, 2012 Categories: Art (3 ratings) Heidi's presentation slides showing the importance of bringing curriculum21 into every classroom. Posted by Heidi, last updated on February 12, 2011 Categories: Professional Development Presentation by Dr. Posted by Heidi, last updated on May 22, 2012 Categories: English/Language Arts Professional Development We’re asking the children of the world to introduce us to the people of the world. Posted by Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano, last updated on July 16, 2012 Categories: Global Global Education (2 ratings)
Puberty - Boys | My body | Explore I love rugby. I play at school – we got Games on Thursdays… well… I used to. I started bunking off, cos the other boys were saying stuff about me in the showers. I didn’t want to be there. I’m the smallest in my year, definitely. When they laughed I felt really weird, like I was hot all over. I didn’t know who to talk to. I saw a ChildLine ad on Bebo and I called them. But the counsellor was really good. He told me about what happens. I’m glad I talked to someone.
Blog | Failure 101 Today I heard the story of golf player and how he completely came apart in the final hole of the 1999 British Open. He went from having a 3 stroke lead going into the 18th hole to losing the championship because it took him 7 shots to get the ball in the hole. Since 1999, every time his name is mentioned it’s, “Remember, he’s the guy that choked big time at the British Open.” I found myself really enjoying that story because of just how tragic it is. When the failure is that massive its almost impossible to look away. Yet, when I fail in public, like I did a few weeks ago, it makes you want to crawl into a hole and never come out. I keep telling myself that recovery from failure—the ability to get up and try again—is probably THE most important skill anyone can have. Popularity: 8% [ ?
The Differentiator Try Respondo! → ← Back to Byrdseed.com The Differentiator The Differentiator is based on Bloom's Taxonomy, Kaplan and Gould's Depth and Complexity, and David Chung's product menu. Try It In: French Dutch • Tweet It • Like Byrdseed • Pin It Students will judge the ethics of the [click to edit] using a textbook and create an essay in groups of three. Revised Bloom's Taxonomy adapted from "A Taxonomy for Learning,Teaching, and Assessing: A Revision of Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives" by Anderson and Krathwohl Depth and Complexity adapted from The Flip Book by Sandra N. Depth Big Idea Unanswered Questions Ethics Patterns Rules Language of the Discipline Essential Details Trends Complexity Multiple Points Of View Change Over Time Across the Disciplines Imperatives Origin Convergence Parallels Paradox Contribution Key Words Consequences Motivations Implications Significance Adapted from David Chung and The Flip Book, Too by Sandra N. Group Size One Two Three Four
8 Great Sites for Reluctant Writers 8 Great Sites for Reluctant Writers 1. Storyjumper Storyjumper allows you to create online books using a plethora of characters, scenes, and props. 2. ReadWriteThink creates a lot of great educational resources. 3. Kerpoof is an online story and comic-creator which allows students to create comic scenes and stories, as well as animated movies, cards, drawings, doodles, and pictures. 4. Story Starters is a fun activity to inspire students to write. 5. My Storymaker allows students to create a story book with fun characters and settings. 6. Part of the larger Scholastic site, Writing With Writers provides an excellent resource for writing. 7. Zoo Burst is a digital storytelling tool that allows you to create lively 3-d pop-up books with sounds and actual pop-up effects when you turn the page. 8. My favorite comic creator, Bitstrips allows students to create fun comics on any topic of their (or your) choice. Like this: Like Loading...
8 Free Calendar Tools for Educators for Better Time Management Most of you use online calendars both for personal and professional uses. The reasons you would opt for an online calendar are multifarious such as scheduling important dates, meetings, to do lists and many more. However, not all of you use simple ones. The thing with some popular online calendars is that they are too complicated to work with and have many features that we do not even use. Below is an aggregation of some of handy and practically simple calendars available for free and that teachers can use to organize their tasks and better manage their time. Here is the list : 1- Short Calendar This is basically a web tool that allows users to create calendars for a set number of days and email them to their inbox. 2- Calendrica Calendrica is web tool that lets users create personal calendars online and for free. 3- Compact Calendar Creator This utility allows users to instantly create compact calendars online and save them in PDF format. 4- Jotlet 5- DayViewer 6- iDoneThis 7- Weekis
Storify your English classroom Washington Post Storify (Photo credit: cfpereda) This year, I’m teaching Year 10 English. In our team discussions early on, we decided to apply some SAMR thinking to modify a task that was normally completed as a paper folio, with pictures pasted in and students adding their comments as handwritten text or something that was computer generated pasted in. Our focus this term is a thematic study about power and greed, perfect as a lead in to out text study of George Orwell’s Animal Farm. The students have adopted it quickly and find it intuitive to use. I can see us using Storify for other purposes throughout the school year. Our students have blogs they use as ePortfolios. Obviously, Storify could be used in a myriad of classroom settings. Google+ Like this: Like Loading...
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